This make me think of some scenes from "The Grapes of Wrath," Rob.
Sometimes they used one of the migrant workers to police their own.
He seems to be taking his job seriously. I can't read the tatoo on his arm but it looks like someone's initials. Judging from his sense of superiority, it might be his own.
Superb colorization as usual.

TicK

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Colorization perfect, tones just right. An unusual capture in the sense that this person has not just posed and put on a "face" on for the camera. Surely gets your mind working, curious about his thoughts.

He sure has attitude, and the photographer at the time caught it very well, and you just gave it more life with your super colorization.
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It's like this young man wasn't happy by being portrayed, Rob, because I probably knew that the result was a B&W capture.
If he had known that it was colorized by you, think we could have seen a smile on his face, ☺ .
Excellently done per usual, my friend.

Watching John Ford's classic "The Grapes of Wrath" (or reading Steinbeck's novel the movie was taken from) or Ken Burn's documentary, "The Dust Bowl", can give one a real sense of how depression-era migrant workers, often contemptuously termed "Okies", were treated. Nearly every segment of America was suffering the effects of financial stress, so additional people arriving to vie for the same limited paying positions, as the local people were, was often met by a law enforcement response, pushing the migrants to move on, taking their problems to the next town. Political correctness and accountability was not much a part of social consciousness then, and small town police departments were small. Augmenting those departments with untrained individuals, sometimes even from the migrants themselves, was done to some extent. Everything about this man and his surroundings literally screams "augment police"... but is it? At first I thought he was a cab driver--my father drove a cab in the late 1940's or early 50's and he wore a cap like this and had an actual badge (I used to play with it)--but the shape and size of the brass-colored badge on this man's cap includes what appears to be an eagle at the top (something my father's cabbie badge did not have). This photo of a Massachusetts police badge from the 30's is quite similar. His "uniform", the casual and unprofessional manner in which he's wearing his cap, and the obvious attitude of his facial expression leads me to think he may have been rather delighted in his newly increased social status and sense of power over others. The fact that the man on the very far left appears to be smiling, and the scene is most likely a migrant camp, my sense is that the "police officer" is either a migrant himself, or the photo itself is a spoof, and the "attitude" man is playacting, representing how migrant workers thought of local law enforcement, to the delight of the man on the left. Just a thought. As for your coloring of the image, Rob, I find the your work on the man and his accoutrements to be about the best I've seen.

-Nik

It does look like this person might be associated with the migrant field workers - can't really be sure if he likes the camera or is trying to be cool - at any rate Rob, the colors you chose are spot on - Excellent work!!!!!!!!

Excellent work my friend, boy his look is attitude plus.